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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2006 Contents
Volume 44, Part 1, Number 143, March 2006
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune’s Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 1
Nicholas Kollerstrom
1–28

A Science Empire in Napoleonic France Maurice Crosland
29–48

The Archaeology of the Inverse Square Law: (2) The Use and Non-use of Mathematics Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris
49–67


Robert Woodhouse and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics
Christopher Phillips

69–93
ESSAY REVIEW
A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, by Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen, and nine other books on molecular biology
Pnina G. Abir-Am

95–118


Notices of Books
119–121
Notes on Contributors 122
Volume 44, Part 2, Number 144, June 2006
SPECIAL ISSUE: ARTISANS AND INSTRUMENTS, 1300–1800
The Locales of Islamic Astronomical Instrumentation François Charette 123–138
From Print to Patents: Living on Instruments in Early Modern Europe Mario Biagioli
139–186
Artisans, Machines, and Descartes’s Organon
Jean-François Gauvin 187–216
Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade Simon Schaffer 217–246
Catadioptrics and Commerce in Eighteenth-century London Jim Bennett 247–278
Notes on Contributors 279
Volume 44, Part 3, Number 145, Sept 2006
Re-examining the Research School: August Wilhelm Hofmann and the Re-creation of a Liebigian Research School in London
Catherine M. Jackson 281–319
Traces of the Mouth: Andrei Andreyevich Markov’s Mathematization of Writing David Link 321–348
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune’s Co-prediction, 1845–1846: Part 2 Nicholas Kollerstrom 349–371
Notes on Contributors 372
Volume 44, Part 4, Number 146, Dec 2006
Gravitating Towards Stability: Guidobaldo’s Aristotelian-Archimedean Synthesis Maarten Van Dyck 373–407
Ecology, Biology and Social Life: Explaining the Origins of Primate Sociality Amanda Rees 409–434
The Elasticity of the Animal Fibre: Movement and Life in Enlightenment Medicine Hisao Ishizuka 435–468
Imperial Incursions in Late-Victorian Cambridge: J. J. Thomson and the Domains of the Physical Sciences
Jaume Navarro 469–495

Notes on Contributors 497
Index to Volume 44 498

Contents Volume 43 2005
Contents Volume 42 2004
Contents Volume 41 2003
Contents Volume 40 2002
Contents Volume 39 2001
Contents Volume 38 2000
Contents Volume 37 1999
Contents Volume 36 1998
Index to Volume 35 1997

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